Description: This toy was inspired by the October 2, 1994 edition of You Can With Beakman and Jax, which featured an excellent description of how UPC barcodes work. Running near-continuously since that fateful day in the fall of 1994, this was the first barcode generating site on the web, and was also one of the first public websites (if not the first such website) to serve instantly-generated images. At first, the server only did the original UPC-A form (the most common product barcode type in the USA), but in the spring of 2001, improvements were made so that now the server can produce pretty much any commonly-used UPC or EAN barcode.

Installation : Must be able to compile a C source program on your server and have the know how to do so..  

Stability : Solid

Strengths:

• A no nonsense small script that gets the job done.
• It handles quite a wide range of barcode formats!
• Excellent barcode background info at site.

Weaknesses:

• It only prints one barcode graphic size, and that is small.
• The output graphic format is the .XBM format?
• Not in perl.